For instance, you declined old Mrs.Foster's invitation last week to meet those odious Higbies at supper--in a polite note in which you expressed regret and said you were very sorry you could not go.

It was a lie.
It was as unmitigated a lie as was ever uttered.

Deny it, Hester--with another lie." Hester replied with a toss of her head.
"That will not do.Answer.Was it a lie, or wasn't it ?" The color stole into the cheeks of both women, and with a struggle and an effort they got out their confession: "It was a lie." "Good--the reform is beginning; there is hope for you yet; you will not tell a lie to save your dearest friend's soul, but you will spew out one without a scruple to save yourself the discomfort of telling an unpleasant truth." He rose.

Hester, speaking for both, said; coldly: "We have lied; we perceive it; it will occur no more.

To lie is a sin.
We shall never tell another one of any kind whatsoever, even lies of courtesy or benevolence, to save any one a pang or a sorrow decreed for him by God." "Ah, how soon you will fall! In fact, you have fallen already; for what you have just uttered is a lie.